While the government has been continuously increasing the rate of housing subsidies aimed at the wealthier segments of society, households most in need are getting left behind according to Habitat for Humanity Hungary’s annual report on housing poverty. Habitat for Humanity Hungary’s (HFHH) report draws a picture of a housing policy that is increasingly aimed at the wealthier and neglects the ...

One and a half million Hungarians live in dwellings unfit for human habitation. No bathroom, toilet out in the yard, windows that let in the cold air, walls black from smoke. In Ág, a small village in the southern Hungarian Baranya county, the locals washed themselves in wash tubs. Last year Habitat for Humanity appeared and offered building material for volunteer work.

A nobleman’s palace in rural Hungary, built in the early 1900s, has gone on sale for HUF 20 million, the price of a small Budapest apartment, the tabloid newspaper Bors has reported. The Perczel Palace, at the village of Rózsafa near Szigetvár in Baranya County, has a floor area of 589 square metres. Its surroundings – the former palace park – are spread out over around 29 000 square metres.

An international symposium organised jointly by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office has taken place in the multifunctional events hall in Várkert Bazár, Budapest’s freshly renovated neo-Renaissance monument and world heritage site.

We Love Budapest : What happens when a few gardeners, biologists, engineers, landscape architects, and economists start experimenting together? They establish a small company, move into an empty historic building in Buda, cultivate its garden, and then deliver special spices to restaurants, hotels, and offices in Budapest – or anywhere ...

The city of Budapest has reached an out of court settlement with Porto Investment, the financial investor behind the moribund CET (Central European Time) project which has transformed historic warehouses on the Danube in the Ninth District.

Budapest Airport has submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court of Hungary, as the airport operator believes that it has been the subject of a disproportionately large increase in land tax this year. Budapest Airport’s view is that the sudden and disproportionate increase in local land tax violates constitutional principles.

While the government has been continuously increasing the rate of housing subsidies aimed at the wealthier segments of society, households most in need are getting left behind according to Habitat for Humanity Hungary’s annual report on housing poverty. Habitat for Humanity Hungary’s (HFHH) report draws a picture of a housing policy that is increasingly aimed at the wealthier and neglects the ...

One and a half million Hungarians live in dwellings unfit for human habitation. No bathroom, toilet out in the yard, windows that let in the cold air, walls black from smoke. In Ág, a small village in the southern Hungarian Baranya county, the locals washed themselves in wash tubs. Last year Habitat for Humanity appeared and offered building material for volunteer work.

A nobleman’s palace in rural Hungary, built in the early 1900s, has gone on sale for HUF 20 million, the price of a small Budapest apartment, the tabloid newspaper Bors has reported. The Perczel Palace, at the village of Rózsafa near Szigetvár in Baranya County, has a floor area of 589 square metres. Its surroundings – the former palace park – are spread out over around 29 000 square metres.

An international symposium organised jointly by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office has taken place in the multifunctional events hall in Várkert Bazár, Budapest’s freshly renovated neo-Renaissance monument and world heritage site.

We Love Budapest : What happens when a few gardeners, biologists, engineers, landscape architects, and economists start experimenting together? They establish a small company, move into an empty historic building in Buda, cultivate its garden, and then deliver special spices to restaurants, hotels, and offices in Budapest – or anywhere ...

The city of Budapest has reached an out of court settlement with Porto Investment, the financial investor behind the moribund CET (Central European Time) project which has transformed historic warehouses on the Danube in the Ninth District.

Budapest Airport has submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court of Hungary, as the airport operator believes that it has been the subject of a disproportionately large increase in land tax this year. Budapest Airport’s view is that the sudden and disproportionate increase in local land tax violates constitutional principles.

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